LAHORE - Lahore Bar Association (LBA) general house meeting was marred by uninterrupted commotion, leading to its postponement for upcoming Monday. The bar lawyers were divided into two groups - anti and pro sacked judges - and started slogans and counter slogans in a bid to tease each other and show their strength. LBA rostrum and microphones of two TVs, which were placed on it, were broken during the pandemonium. A ceiling fan was also broken when a lawyer, Chaudhry Muhammad Yaqoob, hit it in passion of sloganeering and got his hand badly injured. The clashes started well before the starting of the general house meeting proceedings, which was scheduled before taking out the weekly protest rally to press the government to restore all the sacked judges according to their aspirations. As the LBA office bearers entered into the hall, they were given a warm welcome with ear deafening clapping and pro Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry slogans. Seeing this members of the Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF), a lawyers wing affiliated with the PPP, who were present in the hall since morning to bar the LBA lawyers from taking any step against the PPP government and to compel it to reverse its decision of last Thursday wherein it cancelled membership of PLF chairman and Attorney General, Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa, and restricted entry of Law Minister Farooq H Naek into the LBA premises. The PLF lawyers started chanting abusive slogans against sacked chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry at which other lawyers reacted by chanting anti-President Asif Zardari and anti-AG slogans, which continued for half an hour. After some time LBA secretary Latif Sarra announced to adjourn the meeting but still no one was ready to leave the hall and remained chanting slogans. The bar members took out rally when some bar office-bearers switched off electricity supply to the hall. Resolution moved by the PLF lawyers was neither moved nor carried by the general house meeting. Although a press release issued by Khosa Law Chamber stated that in presence of LBA vice president Qamar Shahid Mayo and secretary Malik Sarood Ahmed, the resolution to condemn the LBA secretary Latif Sarra was carried. Mayo and Sarood when asked about it told this scribe that no resolution of this kind was carried, adding that it was fixed for Monday. On the other hand Lahore High Court Bar Association lawyers also took out a rally from the main gate of the Lahore High Court to the Chairing Cross in front of the Punjab Assembly's building. Worker s of PML-N and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf were conspicuous by their absence. Workers of Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakhtoon Khawa Milli Awami Party, Labour Party and Tehrik-i-Khaksar accompanied the lawyers. The workers held aloft their party flags and chanted slogans in favour of sacked chief justice. After reaching in front of the Punjab Assembly's building, the protesters broke up into several groups and chanted slogans for the restoration of the deposed judges. Representatives of political parties underlined the need to restore the "independent judges" for saving the country from an impending disaster. Earlier addressing the LHCBA general house meeting former Supreme Court Bar Association president Hamid Khan said when lawyers started the movement, their agenda was to ensure supremacy of the constitution, rule of law and freedom of judiciary. Emphasising the importance of perseverance, Hamid Khan said Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and South Africa's Nelson Mandela inspired long movements and became the symbols of truth and virtue. He added deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was Pakistan's Nelson Mandela, who stood for the independence of judiciary and what is right. He predicted surge in the movement after Eid.